Spicy Sausage Borscht
"A friend traded me this recipe for my oxtail split-pea soup. I've got to say, for a quick and easy recipe (less than an hour to table), it really packs a wallop! The use of spicy sausage is key here, as well as the fennel seed, dill seed, and fresh dill, and using canned beets makes it *so* much less work than it would be otherwise. I think maybe I got the better part of the trade...."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 lb spicy pork sausage, without casings
- 1 teaspoon fennel seed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dill seed
- 1 quart beef stock
- 3 (15 ounce) cans beets, drained
- salt, to taste
- black pepper, ground, to taste
- fresh dill, chopped, to serve
- sour cream, to serve
directions
- In a large saucepan over medium-high, heat oil. Add onion and cook until just starting to brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Add sausage and cook, breaking it up, until lightly browned, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Add fennel and dill seeds and cook for another 30 seconds.
- Add stock and bring to a simmer.
- While stock heats, fit a food processor with the large grating attachment. Grate the beets. Add beets and any liquid in the processor to the pan. Bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Ladle into bowls and served topped with sour cream and dill.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
lecole54
Machias, Maine
I only came to cooking in my 50s, when we moved home to a tiny town with only a few restaurants. I'm always on the hunt for easy, flavorful recipes (often ethnic cuisines), and I'm always ready to try something new and different! In cold weather I gravitate to stews, soups, and casseroles of the not-too-heavy kind; in hot weather I love a salad or cold soup. Partly because of my husband's diabetes (I'm borderline) and partly out of indolence, baking is not my thing.
